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Handmade, Zero Waste Halloween Costumes

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Created June 9, 2014 by Amber Dohrenwend • 3272 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Every year millions of kids get dressed up for Halloween. Instead of using their own creativity to design, tailor and execute a costume themselves, they default to store bought costumes. Halloween represents an authentic, interest driven design opportunity for all kids. We can guide them on a path to creating their own costumes that harness their creativity and build their confidence. 2013 marks the 2nd annual Cardboard Costume Challenge which is an online event featuring costume ideas and tutorials. It’s also a showcases for creative, low to no waste costumes that are entirely handmade. Think only robot costumes are made… Read more »

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Make a statue for a hero

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Created by Jaap Bosman • 1531 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Steps to make a statue for a hero. (teachers could change and adjust this task) Choose a hero (why is this a hero?) Make a statue (plaquette) a 3D image of your hero. On or next to the statue will be a poem or a song to tell the public why this is your hero. If you do not know how to connect statue and text: Look on the internet for statues with text. The statue could be made of wood, clay, Lego, food, cake, sugar, chocolate, paper, and other stuff. Choose the way you deliver publish your statue. (you… Read more »

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Make a picture with a paper cut-out

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Created June 3, 2014 by Karen Fasimpaur • 1619 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Make an amazing picture with a paper cut-out in it. Make it tell a story. Share and build off someone else’s work. (Tag #clmooc-cutout and also post your example at the bottom of this page.) See this site for examples and inspiration. Adapted from: Kouichi Chiba

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Alexander Calder-inspired #toyhack sculpture

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Created May 30, 2014 by Mia Zamora • 2112 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Alexander Calder-inspired #toyhack sculpture

Inspired by the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder (who has been credited as the originator of the “mobile” as a type of kinetic sculpture) my two boys and I embraced the second #toyhack make-cycle as a team. We worked on our Calder-inspired sculpture project together from beginning to end. First, I turned to the internet to introduce them to Alexander Calder and show them all kinds of examples of Calder’s work, focusing particularly on his mobiles. From there we were all charged up and jumped right into our own creative collaboration. We scoured their bedroom for old discarded toy… Read more »

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Simple Book from One Page of Paper

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Created May 29, 2014 by susan wolf • 2271 views • 0 examples • 1 tutorials

Choose a page of paper: At least 8.5″ x 11″. Any size rectangle. Paper should have some firmness. But for a first try using standard office paper is okay. 1 – Fold the paper lengthwise and open 2 – Fold the paper horizontally then again resulting in 4 quadrants 3 – Cut along the longest center fold thru the center 2 quadrants 4 – Pull the fold perpendicular to the sliced section and on either side of the slice up and out. This will give you a star shaped view from the top 5 – Flatten folding into a book…. Read more »

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Cut Out Pics Summaries

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Created May 28, 2014 by Sheri Edwards • 2391 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Digital Learning Day is February 5th. Our Task: Cut-0ut Pics for your current projects in content areas, such as In-the-News Articles Projects to participate in #make4DLDay by the National Writing Project. Our Goal: RI 2 Provide an objective summary of the text, including supporting ideas. How? 1. With your project team, create cut-out characters from to represent your article. a. Sketch b. Outline in black with some color c. Cut out. Example: My article: “JSYK: Score! Training Tips from Super Athletes” p2 Sept. 2013 Scholastic Choices 2. Decide and write what is the most important message / summary of your… Read more »

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